CIIAPTEE VIII. 
THE KAEEIBS. 
THEIR COUNTRY, ORIGIN, PERSONS, TRIBES, ORNAMENTS, WEA- 
PONS, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, MANUFACTURES, AND EMPLOY- 
MENTS. 
We now turn to a more interesting page in 
African history, the more pleasing task of de- 
picting the Kaffirs, a people better known in 
Europe by name, than understood in character, 
or appreciated in worth. 
Few, if any, of the barbarous tribes at pre- 
sent existing on the earth, surpass this people 
in interest, intelligence, or talent. They are, 
throughout all their tribal distinctions in per- 
fect harmony with that wild, lovely, and ro- 
mantic country which now bears their name. 
Nor are their picturesque and graceful figures, 
folded in their karosses, and seen scattered here 
and there throughout the hills, the least attrac- 
tive portion in the whole contour of Kaffrarian 
scenery, 
The delightful climate ; the intense rarity of 
the atmosphere ; the perfectly cloudless sky ; 
together with the unequalled beauty of the 
